Cooped Up? Get Uncooped.

Whether it's the weather, responsibilities, or finances, it's just not always possible to get uncooped. Here's five tips to enjoy the same benefits of travel while kicking it locally.

1. Start a new hobby.Travelling helps us escape the hum drum of normal life. Starting a new hobby — something that you’re passionate about — has a similar effect.

2. Explore new cultures in your hometown. Many of us live in multi-cultural cities or towns. We don’t even have to leave our home town to experience a new culture.

3. Be a local tourist. Make a list of all the (tourist) places in your area that you’ve always “meant to visit”, and go visit them!

4.  Learn a language. One of the joys (and challenges) of travel abroad is the opportunity to speak to locals in their own language and get a real sense of a place. Unfortunately language barriers often stand in our way.

5. Get interactive online. Blogs, websites, forums — now more than ever, it is possible to find out about a place without even visiting it. It’s even possible to use Google Earth to travel to somewhere halfway across the world without leaving your living room.

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Via Lifehacker. 

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